The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-11-10
GOVERNMENT AL.
What is Going on In the State De-
partments.
An Epltome OF What Was
Learned at the Capitol
from Thursday's Daily. /

of Sl50'for the capture of Wesly Williams
WHO killed his wife, III Falls county, and
escaped the county. He was arrested
and brought back, and the reward off, red
has been forwarded.
Receipts at the treasury yesterday were
$4,000, and di5burscm5 nts, S25,0 600.
The Texarkana & Northern railroad
filed It's report yesterday, showing CAPT
tnl stock, $l00,000; paid in, S6000o; ex-
peaded for construction, etc, 100000; no
nssets and no liabilities.
The comptruiler's deposits yesterday
were $l,5OO.
II. 9. Croft, an attorney at Midland
writes to the attorney general that ha has
been employed to btlng quo w%rrantO
proceedings against L. y. Wadley and j
Q. Kerr for holding, it is claimed, more
offices than the law allows.
From Fridays Daily
Comptroller's deposits yesterday were
$22,227.27.
The following railroads paid their pas
senger taxes yesterday: Texas d. New
Orleans, $162.59; Sabine g. East Texas,
1929; G. H. g. S. A., 1862 80; &. W. L. g.
p, $l756; N. Y, I. q M, 1851.
Treasury balances at the end of O:to-
ber's business were as folIrWr:
Receipts in October ............. a147 81 ~
Disbursements in Oc'ober. ........... 2O2 533 81
Balance revenue on hand .............. I5g 13 G5
| Ba anCe available University fund.-. e. 739 II
Balance, liable &C DOL fund. ........ 1920 96
| Balance, permanent school funu ... 23S 2S9 So
To other funds ..... ............... 1863 465 IS
IO'al cash In the Treasury .......... 1870 81
The board of education held u meeting
yesterday to pass upon an appeal taken
by A. Heidusek, county judge of Fayette
county, from ruling made by Supern-
tendent Cooper. 1t appears that Judge
Heidusek had cancelled the certificate of
a teacher named Hensoldt, as the latter
claimed, because he had, in his o9uh0use,
made criticisms upon the judges official
acts. acnsoldt brought the case bcfure
Superintendent Cooper, vino, after
thorough examinntiet, found that he
could not sustain the comfy judge. The
latter then made his appeal to the board
of education, who considered the case .es
| terdey, and then voted 20 sustain Pro-
lessor Cooper in every point he had taken.
From Saturdays DaiIy.l
Governor Ross is in receipt of the fol
lowing letter from gentleman who is
widely experienced regarding the border
troubles:
| "GoVernor L. s. Rosa:
Dear Sir-The letter of your private
secretary expresses desire on your part
that shall write you fully of affairs in
| this section. AS we have both had ex-
perience as officers dnring our late war,
aud rs Indian fighters before and since,
1 can write to you with feeling that what
| shall say will be viewed as the opinion
n nf nd 30
know whereof he speaks. More especially
do believe my suggestions deserving of
serious consideration, as have lived since
1873 IN Mexico and on the frontier,
and should pretty thoroughly
understand the Mexican character.
l do not believe thatryour state rangers
will effect more than temporary sus-
pension of the raids of Mexican bandits,
for the following reasons: The bandits
have simply to cross the Rio Grande to be
beyond pursuit, and beyond the reach of
any other than Mexican spies upon their
movements. Rangers will not be per-
mitted to cross after them, and they can
! concentrate opposite any other point on
the border without the knowledge of the
rasgers, until they have crossed, made
their raids and returned, as their raids can
be made within thirty-six or forty eight
hours from the crossing of the river into
Texas until their return to Mexico. Our
population is almost exclusively Mexicaa,
and, without the knowledge of any one,
the bandits can keep their spies within
sight of the rangers camp, and no one
know them or be the wiser. The
country is, at all times, full
OF transient Mexicans ami Migrants
unknown and unnoticed by the residents. !
No American, however, can enter a Mexi-
can ranch without attracting general |
attention. Nor will Mexican ranchman, |
through fear of his life, and of being he
trayed or of exposure to his enemies |
through being made witness in court |
against them, disclose anything he knows
to an American against notorious thief |
or bandit. He dreada a raid by their |
friends when alone or unprotected, and |
he knows that it would or very probably
might cost him his life. good Mexican |
citizen has dread of our criminal laws.
One of the best Mexicans that ever lived |
in this country once overlook "a thief
with five Of his horses and three
of his neighbors, he under
took to arrest the thief, who ran, and
the old Mexican gentleman shot at and
killed him. He brought all the horses re-
covered to this place, to the justice of the
peace; proved his property and that of
his neighbors, and reported the circum
stances under which he killed the fleeing
thief; yet, ne was indicted, and it cost him
$1,000 to keep out of the penitentiary.
This has been a most unfortunate lesson
for tho good Mexicans of this county, and
they very fully remember and profit by 1t.
"A Mexican possesses very many
of the characteristics of the Indian.
He considers, for instance, that it would
be reflection upon his manhood, if
stabbed or otherwise wounded fatally in
personal difficulty, to give the name of
his adversary or any facts that would in
culpate his adversary as a murderer, and
you will understand why the best Mex
leans will not consent 10 Cooperate with
rangers TO capture the bandits, as the fact
is certain to get to the robbers, and, the
troops once away, then will come the BAN
dts revenge"
Chartered: The Austin Sanitarian.
incorporates: Walter Tips, T. j. Tyner,
B. E. Hadra, ]. W. Mclaughlin aud Ralph
Steiner.
Receipts at the treasury yesterday we're
$1,000 and disbursem ents, $4,000.
Comptroller deposits we're about $15,-
900, school funds about $4,000 and sub